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April 1913     Fly Magazine      13
 (photograph) with caption showing completed machine of the Cooke Company

The fuselage is built up of a spruce framework, with steel corners and wire trussing in the usual manner, and the whole is covered with five-ply mahogany veneer.  This veneer, while only 1/8-inch thick, increases the strength of the fuselage about three times.  The result is one of the most rigid fuselage on any machine.  It is very small, being only 22x24 inches cross section at the widest point and it is very much stronger than necessary.
The fuselage is made in three pieces for convenience in shipment.  The joints can be taken down in a very few minutes.  The entire machine is designed with the object of making it possible to pack quickly and in small space.  The control wires are the only ones that need be disturbed.  The power plant is built in one unit and does not have to be touched in packing.  The landing gear is so short that it need not be removed and the entire engine section in its crate can be moved about on its own wheels using the end of the skid as a handle.  This is the only heavy box and it can be moved very easily on the wheels.  The entire machine packed for shipment weighs about 1000 pounds.
The control is one developed by E.W. Roberts and is suitable for one hand operation.  The when is used for operating the ailerons.  Twisting the wheel operates the rudder, and a fore and aft motion operates the elevator.
The weight of the machine in flying order is about 750 pounds.  It has a span of 24 feet, a chord of 5 feet and a length over all of 26 feet.  it has 240 square feet of surface in the main plane.
Lateral balance is maintained by ailerons attached to the upper and lower rear beams.  Each set is connected by a light spruce strut, braced with steel tubing.  
The power is furnished by a 6-cylinder, 75 horsepower Roberts motor.
Mr. Cooke writes that this machine is not the final design, but that it embodies the main features that he will use in his 1913 models.  "Small refinements of detail will appear in our other machines."

   Benefit For Frey's Widow A Big Success

Thousands of spectators crowded the enclosure at the Juvisy aerodrome on the afternoon of February 23, when an exhibition was held for the widow of the late Andre Frey.  The meet was organized by Jean Bielovucic, who recently flew across the Alps, and probably more prominent pilots were gathered together at that time than have ever appeared before in a single exhibition.
Instead of coming by train, most of the aviators came by aeroplane.  George Legagneux, former holder of the world's altitude record, flew his Morane-Saulnier over from Buc; from Issy-Les_Moulineaux flew Poiree on a Bleriot, Gobe on a Nieuport, Gilbert on a Morane and Gastinger on a Clement-Bayard metallic monoplane.
Among the others who took part were: Jules Vedrines on a Deperdussin, Emile Vedrines on a Deperdussin,  Letort on a Sommer monoplane, Favre on a Hanriot, Molla on an R.E.P. monoplane, Raulet on a Hanriot, Guillaux on a Hanriot, Brindejonc des Moulinais on a Morane-Saulnier, Perreyron, chief pilot of the Bleriot school, on a Bleriot, and Chevillard on a Farman.
The meet was opened with a flight by Bielovucic on his Hanriot.  The most impressive flight of the afternoon was made by Chevillard.
The Hearty support given Bielovucic in organizing the exhibition assures a comfortable purse for Mrs. Frey.